Maggie Nelson
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Maggie Nelson (born 1973) is an American writer. She has been described as a
genre-busting writer defying classification, working in
autobiography,
art criticism,
theory,
feminism,
queerness,
sexual violence, the history of the
avant-garde,
aesthetic theory,
philosophy,
scholarship, and
poetry. Nelson has been the recipient of a 2016
MacArthur Fellowship, a 2012
Creative Capital Literature Fellowship, a 2011
NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2010
Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction. Other honors include the 2015
National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and a 2007
Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant.
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